Acontias namaquensis HEWITT, 1937

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Acontiinae (Acontidae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Namaqua Legless Skink, Namaqua Lance Skink
Synonym	Acontias plumbeus namaquensis HEWITT 1937: 47 Acontias plumbeus namaquensis — FITZSIMONS 1943: 247 Acontias gracilicauda namaquensis — BROADLEY & GREER 1969: 19 Acontias namaquensis — LAMB et al. 2010 Acontias namaquensis — CONRADIE et al. 2019 Acontias namaquensis — ZHAO et al. 2023
Distribution	Republic of South Africa (Northern Cape Province) Type locality: O'okiep, Steinkopf & Kamiesberg, Little Namaqualand (fide FITZSIMONS 1943: 247)
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: PEM R4443 (formerly AMG 959), (FITZSIMONS 1943: 248, Broadley & Greer, 1969)
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2078 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Limb morphology: Limbless. Type not in South Africa fide SAMA catalog (Anonymous 1958) which lists the type of Scelotes bipes namaquensis FITZSIMONS.
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp. Bauer, A.M., and Branch, W.R. 2003. The herpetofauna of the Richtersveld National Park, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. Herpetological Natural History 8: 111-160 [2001] BRANCH , W.R. & MARITZ, B. 2010. Acontias namaquensis (Hewitt, 1938). African Herp News (51): 28-29 - get paper here Broadley, D. G. and Greer, A. E. 1969. A revision of the genus Acontias Cuvier (Sauria: Scincidae). Arnoldia Rhodesia 4 (26): 1-29. CONRADIE, WERNER; WILLIAM R. BRANCH, & GILLIAN WATSON 2019. Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata). Zootaxa 4576 (1): 001–045 - get paper here Daniels, S. R., M. G. J. Hendricks, N. J. L. Heideman and B. A. Wilson. 1999. Geographic Distribution. Acontias gracilicauda gracilicauda Essex 1925: Thin-tailed legless skink. African Herp News (29): 43 - get paper here Daniels, S.R.; Neil J.L. Heideman, Martin G.J. Hendricks, Mphalile E. Mokone, Keith A. Crandall 2005. Unraveling evolutionary lineages in the limbless fossorial skink genus Acontias (Sauria: Scincidae): are subspecies equivalent systematic units? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34: 645–654 - get paper here Essex, R. 1925. Descriptions of two new species of the genus Acontias and notes on some other lizards found in the Cape Province. Rec. Albany Mus. 3: 332-342. Heideman, N.J.L. et al. 2008. Sexual dimorphism in the African legless skink subfamily Acontiinae (Reptilia: Scincidae). African Zoology 43 (2): 192–201 - get paper here Hewitt, J. 1937. Description of new forms of the genus Acontias. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 26: 39-48 Lamb, T.; Biswas, S. & Bauer, A.M. 2010. A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence for parallelism and polyphyly. Zootaxa 2657: 33–46 - get paper here Zhao, Z., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Jordaan, A., Nicolau, G., Edwards, S., Riekert, S., Heideman, N. 2023. Diversification of the African legless skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Family Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - get paper here
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